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rebut
c.1300, from O.Fr.
rebuter
"to thrust back," from
re-
"back" +
boter
"to thrust, hit" (see
butt
(v.)). Sense of "try to disprove, refute" is from 1817.
Rebuttal
first recorded 1830.
